Separation from a spouse or cohabiting partner is associated with a high likelihood of moving, even over long distances. In this paper, we use longitudinal data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics for the United States to analyze the role of non-resident family in the migration of separated people immediately after and in the years following union dissolution. We explore both migration in general and return migration among separated people, drawing comparisons to married and never-married people. We find that having parents, children, or siblings living close by substantially deters migration, especially among separated people. We also find marked positive effects of having family members in the county where the respondent grew up on the likelihood of returning there. Separated people are especially likely to return, compared to others, if they have parents in their county of origin. Furthermore, a lack of an effect of years of education on migration, and a negative effect of this variable on return migration, suggest that migration after separation is less related to human-capital considerations than other types of migration.

与配偶或同居伙伴分离与搬家的可能性很高有关，即使是长距离搬家。在本文中，我们使用来自美国收入动态面板研究的纵向数据来分析非居民家庭在工会解散后立即和解散后几年中分离人员迁移中的作用。我们探讨了一般移民和失散人群的返程移民，并与已婚和未婚人士进行了比较。我们发现，让父母、孩子或兄弟姐妹住在附近会大大阻碍迁移，尤其是在离散人群中。我们还发现，在受访者长大的县有家庭成员对返回那里的可能性有显着的积极影响。与其他人相比，失散的人特别有可能返回，如果他们的父母在原籍县。此外，受教育年限对迁移没有影响，并且该变量对返回迁移有负面影响，这表明与其他类型的迁移相比，分离后的迁移与人力资本考虑的相关性较小。